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The Behavioural Effects of Minimum Wages

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The prevailing labour market models assume that minimum wages do not affect the labour supply schedule. We challenge this view in this paper by showing experimentally that minimum wages have significant and lasting effects on subjects’ reservation wages. The temporary introduction of a minimum...

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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : journal of contextual economics 122 (2002) 4, pp. 519-542

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A nationwide laboratory : examining trust and trust-worthiness by integrating behavioural experiments into representative surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2003

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Screening, competition, and job design : economic origins of good jobs

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010

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Spite and Development

Fehr, Ernst - 2008

In a wide variety of settings, spiteful preferences would constitute an obstacle to cooperation, trade, and thus economic development. This paper shows that spiteful preferences - the desire to reduce another's material payoff for the mere purpose of increasing one's relative payoff - are...

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Use and abuse of authority : a behavioral foundation of the employment relation

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012

Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However, there is a tradeoff, first pointed out by Simon (1951), between flexibility and employer moral hazard. An employment contract allows the principal to adjust the task quickly to...

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The lure of authority : motivation and incentive effects of power

Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger; Wilkening, Tom - 2012

Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and incentive effects of authority experimentally in an authority- delegation game. Individuals often retain...

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Fair wages and effort provision : combining evidence from the lab and the field

Cohn, Alain; Fehr, Ernst; Götte, Lorenz - 2013

fairness perceptions and social preferences in workers' performance in a field experiment in which workers were hired for a one … that only workers who display positive reciprocity in a lab experiment show reciprocal performance responses in the field … interpret previous contradictory findings in the literature. -- Fairness Perception ; Positive Reciprocity ; Field Experiment …

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The intrinsic value of decision rights

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - 2013

Philosophers, psychologists, and economists have long argued that certain decision rights carry not only instrumental value but may also be valuable for their own sake. The ideas of autonomy, freedom, and liberty derive their intuitive appeal - at least partly - from an assumed positive...

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The intrinsic value of decision rights

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 82 (2014) 6, pp. 2005-2039

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